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Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West- Central Scots , but which shows strong influences from Irish English , its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards ...
The suitability of D A D G A D to Celtic music stems from the fact that it facilitates the use of a number of moveable chords, which retain open strings. [6] These act as a drone on either the bass or treble strings, approximating the voicings used in traditional Scottish and Irish pipe music.
A copper plaque by Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland.The Kirk is situated below Arthur's Seat and next to Duddingston Loch. "Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman.
Scottish and North English dialect. laddie A boy. lassie A girl. links Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge). pernickety From pernicky. minging literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming". plaid From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation. pony
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The current project team includes editorial staff from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and from the Scottish National Dictionary Association. In 2021, Scottish Language Dictionaries became an SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) and changed its name to Dictionaries of the Scots Language.
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Scottish English (Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English ( SSE ).